Luoyan Prefecture, Hun County.
This was the largest county in Luoyan Prefecture by both area and population. It bordered Yan Prefecture to the south and the coast to the east, making it a place of critical importance.
But the Three Prefectures Department had no influence in this county at all. Even the Hun County government had nothing to do with the Martial Dynasty.
Here, every official was a demon. The county magistrate was a Dog Demon, the constables were Wolf Demons, and the county government was rife with Blood Qi and reeked of foulness.
And the one responsible for all this was the Red Clothed Layman, a Demon Saint at the Yangshi Realm.
Thanks to her formidable strength, she had claimed two counties for herself and raked in countless offerings. In front of her temples, the common people trembled in fear; even from far away, they couldn't help but kneel and kowtow.
At that moment, in a Cave Mansion nestled in a mountain hollow, countless tiny, transparent spiders crawled out of a cave, seeing sunlight for the first time.
Deep inside the cave, a blood-red spider opened her eyes and began mending her exhausted body.
The Red Clothed Layman was in a good mood. She had finally completed this birthing, delivering more than eight hundred little spiders—a number almost unimaginable even among demons.
Demons, like martial artists, found it harder to bear offspring the higher their cultivation. For experts at the Demon Saint level, getting pregnant was nearly impossible.
But the Red Clothed Layman was different. Her Innate Divine Ability was geared toward dual cultivation, and it could ignore the bloodlines of different species, transforming them all into her own pure bloodline. This ensured that the children she bore had pure bloodlines.
It was thanks to this Innate Divine Ability